M&J - Confessions To A Digital God.

After my tutorial today with Rosie Gunn I took the time to think about a clearer rational about my installation piece.

Comment from my previous post.

I was also given a site to look at: http://postsecret.com/. The website is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a post card. The website was inspiring to some extent as it gave me inspiration on being able to give a clearer rational about my work.

PostSecret website: Check it out if you already haven't.

I started to produce some mind-maps on how I could go about rationalising my idea, and have come up with a solution to why and how my audience would engage with my installation piece. I really liked the idea of secrets being told anonymously, and so I thought it would be a good idea to allow the audience to blurt out one of their secrets to a single booth, acting as a "digital God" of some sort. Like the website everything will come across as anonymous.

So overall I would not be using two booth's as mentioned in my previous post. Instead I would create a small single interactive booth with the same concept of hiding their identity, by wearing a white plain mask and changing their tone of voice. The design of the booth wouldn't be the same as previously posted but I will work something out to make it suitable for the audience to interact with it.

Mask that would be used to cover the audience's face.

So after looking more into confessional booth's I came across another artist who had a similar idea. Jamie Smith had created a confessional booth, in which the audience would engage in by anonymously writing their confessions on a piece of paper, and placed it in an art gallery for two weeks.

Jamie Smith's confessional booth http://www.jamiesmithstudio.com/a-busy-two-weeks/

With the confessions he receives Jamie Smith creates art pieces/paintings that relate to the confessions.

This gave me the inspiration to use the confessions recorded from the booth I will be creating. I will be creating a website or blog specifically dedicated to the confessional booth, in which I will post the outcome (video's) of the booth online.

Another booth in which the audience write their confessions